The Republic by Plato
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Plato's Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions ar ...Show more
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: good
A book which speaks directly to the confusions and agonies of existence, detailing a personal, philosophical odyssey.
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and ...Show more
Regenesis: How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism / A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller / Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation "George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today." --Greta Thunberg For the first time in millen ...Show more
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A thrilling history of the revolutionary birth of modern Greece In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause that came to galvanize countless individuals across Europe and the United States- freedom for Greece. Mark Mazower's wonderful new book recreate ...Show more
Nasty, Brutish & Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids by Scott Hershovitz
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Category: Classics
An NPR Best Book of 2022 * One of Christian Science Monitor's 10 best books of May "This amazing new book . . . takes us on a journey through classic and contemporary philosophy powered by questions like 'What do we have the right to do? When is it okay to do this or that?' They explore punishment and a ...Show more
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis.A New York Times Notable Book of 2017How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world--from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, ...Show more
In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History by Dominic Lieven
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperorsFor millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their authority. They operated beyond normal human constraint and ...Show more
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms by Gerd Gigerenzer
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics
An essential guide to navigating our data-driven world, from one of the most influential psychologists of the twenty-first century. Is more data always better? Do algorithms really make better decisions than humans? Can we stay in control in an increasingly automated world? Drawing on examples from all ...Show more
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
In its search for authorities and examples, which range from Nietzsche to Zen, from Ruysbroek to Debussy, the book might be considered an encyclopaedia of that affirmative discourse which is the lover's.
The Histories by Herodotus
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Category: Classics
'Herodotus, from Halicarnassus, here displays his enquiries, that human achievement may be spared the ravages of time, and that everything great and astounding, and all the glory of those exploits which served to display Greeks and barbarians alike to such effect, be kept alive - and additionally, and m ...Show more
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classics
In 1933, Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. "The Road to Oxiana" offers not only a wonderfu ...Show more